Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) / The Revival of Learning

by John Addington Symonds

[226] He first came to Italy in 1430, professed Greek at Ferrara from 1441 to 1450, and died in Campania about 1478. He translated many works of Aristotle. His own book on Grammar was printed by Aldus in 1495.

[227] Raffaello Volaterrano, quoted by Tiraboschi, vol. vi. lib. iii. cap. 2, 16.

[228] See Tiraboschi, vol. vi. lib. iii. cap. 2, 17.

[229] See my [Sketches in Italy and Greece], article 'Perugia.'

[230] Tiraboschi, vol. vi. lib. iii. cap. 5, 46.

[231] I may refer to Petrarch's Letters passim, and to the solemn peroration of the Africa.

[232] See [Vol. I., Age of the Despots], pp. 445, 446.

[233] Vita di Alfonso, p. 59. Vita di Manetti, p. 451.

[234] See Tiraboschi, vol. vi. lib. i. cap. 2, 17.

[235] Pontano, De Principe, and Panormita, De Dictis et Factis Alphonsi Regis, furnish these anecdotes.